Hydroacoustic data collected onboard the Aurora Australis during voyage 3 of the 2005-2006 season (BROKE-West)

• Other Authors: AADC (owner), AADC, DATA OFFICER (distributor), AADC, DATA OFFICER (custodian), AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia (hasAssociationWith), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher), Australian Antarctic Division (sponsor), JARVIS, TOBY (collaborator), JARVIS, TOBY (hasPrincipalInvestigator), Jarvis, T. (originator), MOSBAUER, ALICJA (author)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: oceans; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; OCEANS > OCEAN ACOUSTICS; ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > PLANKTON > ZOOPLANKTON; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; Euphausia superba; ECHO SOUNDERS; SHIPS; R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis; AMD/AU; CEOS; AMD; ACE/CRC; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Krill; Antarctica; aurora australis; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/hydroacoustic-collected-onboard-broke-west/2819835

Progress Code: completed Statement: There are two minor issues regarding the EDSU-level NASC and rho data representing krill: 1. The files "edsu-2000-250-250_120H_nasc-rho_krill_meth1.csv" and "edsu-2000-250-250_120H_nasc-rho_krill_meth2.csv" do not contain valid seafloor depth values due to an oversight when exporting the original bin-level data from Echoview. It would be possible to rectify this if there were sufficient cause, although it would be a lengthy process. It would be sufficient to use the seafloor data from the file "edsu-2000-250-006_120H_nasc-rho_krill_meth3.csv" instead, but note issue 2 below. 2. The definitions for a number of EDSUs along Transect 2 in the file "edsu-2000-250-006_120H_nasc-rho_krill_meth3.csv" are mismatched by 1-2 minutes from those in the files "edsu-2000-250-250_120H_nasc-rho_krill_meth1.csv" and "edsu-2000-250-250_120H_nasc-rho_krill_meth2.csv", resulting in the delineation of 1 additional EDSU. This affects the data between 25-Jan-2006 15:31 (UTC) and 26-Jan-2006 16:22 (UTC). The cause of this is unclear at present, but is likely to relate to the implementation of positional information within Echoview and minor variation arising from the export of different varaiables from Echoview. Given the short offset, the significant of this difference appears to be negligible. This dataset contains data files, processing templates and documentation relating to the BROKE-West multifrequency echosounder (acoustic) survey carried out from the RSV Aurora Australis in the austral summer of 2005/06 (ASAC project 2655). The primary aim of the acoustic survey was to describe the distribution and abundance of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) in CCAMLR Division 58.4.2. However, these data are also relevant for studies of other sound-scattering targets detected by the echosounder system, for example other pelagic taxa or the seafloor. The dataset is a collection of *.csv data files, *.ev processing files and *.pdf documentation files, organised into 4 categories: 1. Acoustic survey: ...